Books and Papers by Geoff Drake
A Crime Thriller A Conspiracy to Kill
Andy Kent is an ex-SAS officer whose wife and daughter are killed, Andy is out for revenge and takes on the drug
baron who was responsible. In the process Andy ends up running for his life, aided by the mysterious Niamh.
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A Paper written for Agile 2006 (Rolling the Dice for Agile Software Development
written in conjunction with Bartłomiej Ziółkowski
The Harvard Business School DICE® framework provides means for predicting the outcome of change management initiatives. The four factors: duration, integrity, commitment, and effort are evaluated and a score is calculated. The DICE® score is used to classify projects into win, worry, or woe zones. This paper, applies the DICE® framework to predict the outcome of a software project that is migrating from waterfall to agile practices. We propose fine-tuning of the four factors to improve the score and show how to use DICE® for communication with the stakeholders. Finally, we make a claim that evaluation against the DICE® framework confirms that agile projects have a higher chance of success than traditional waterfall projects.